Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Proctorville, Ohio

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45669. It stands on Little Paddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 523 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Proctorville within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Proctorville fell from 574 to 523 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	574
2020	523	-51 (-9%)

Then and now

1892 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 90 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Proctorville, surveyed 1982

Topographic sheet of Proctorville, surveyed 1892

Topographic sheets covering this place

20 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires nearby

140 since 1992

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Proctorville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	47
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1822
19 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	RUSSELL CREEK
24 July 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	EAST PEA RIDGE
16 July 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	8546
17 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	5600 BLOCK RT. 2
9 May 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	West Virginia Division of Forestry	ARACOM ROAD
4 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Ohio Department of Natural Resources	1404

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 761 shown

Museums hold 761 specimens collected within 10 miles of Proctorville between 1840 and 1974: 543 Animalia, 117 Plantae, 78 Fungi, 20 Protozoa, 2 Chromista, 1 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Archer W. A., BARBOUR, DOUGLAS I, BARUCH and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Microsphaera alni (DC.) G.Winter	1892	W.A. Kellerman	Symmes Creek
Polanisia dodecandra (L.) DC.	1840	Short, C.W.	along Ohio River
Eragrostis reptans (Michx.) Nees	1880	T Meehan
Cambarus bartonii (Fabricius, 1798)	1900	not recorded	Guyandotte River
Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1903	Beale J. M.	Guyandotte
Coniothyrium fuckelii Sacc.	1904	Brooks Fred E.	Huntington
Venturia inaequalis (Cooke) G.Winter	1904	Brooks F. E.	Huntington
Haematoloechus longiplexus Stafford, 1902	1905	Collector(s): Daniel R. Brooks, David Zamparo	Huntington
Cladosporium carpophilum Thüm.	1906	C.M. Davidson
Albugo bliti (Biv.) Kuntze	1909	Summers, T. B.	Huntington
Coprinus Pers., 1797	1909	Sambert	Barboursville
Marssonina populi (Lib.) Magnus	1909	Sheldon John L.	Huntington

All 761 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

3 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Proctorville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huntington Alloys Rolling Mill	Nickel	Producer
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Barboursville Clay Mfg. Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms nearby

25 since 1996

The National Weather Service names Proctorville in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$250,000	A small portion of the roof to Fairland Middle School was damaged. A large camper was rolled over. Small structures on the fairgrounds were damaged. Several trees were knocked down. One tree fell into a second floor bedroom of a home, causing heavy damage.
April 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$100,000	A broken path of damage was observed during a storm survey, beginning near the intersection of State Street and Shirkey Street to the Fairland West Elementary School. Little to no convergence was noted in the debris along the damage path, consistent with a microburst. The north wall of the Proctorville Fire Department, built of unreinforced concrete block, was destroyed, with the roof completely removed from the rear portion of the structure. The roof at the Fairland West Elementary School was also partially removed.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$75,000	Large trees and branches were blown down. One single family house had shingles and a support structure blown off.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$20,000	Numerous trees were fallen along Route 775. Wind gusts were estimated at 60 to 65 mph.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$10,000	Large branches were snapped off trees. Minor roof damage occurred to a few homes.
June 1996	Flash Flood	Proctorville	$10,000	no account filed
August 2021	Flash Flood	Proctorville	$3,000	High water was observed over the road near the Lawrence County Fairgrounds in the community of Proctorville.
February 2019	Flood	Proctorville	$2,000	Old State Route 7 in Proctorville became impassable due to flooding. Water reached up to the front doors of the commercial businesses that line the road.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$2,000	Large trees were blown down.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	$2,000	no account filed
January 2022	Flood	Proctorville	$1,000	All lanes of State Route 775 South were impassable due to flooding from State Route 141 to West Virginia Route 106.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Proctorville	$1,000	High water closed a section of State Street in Proctorville.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Proctorville	-	High water was observed in front of the Proctorville Fire Department and near the body shop on County Road 107 in Rome. Water reached the top of the tires of one vehicle in front of the body shop.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	-	A few trees were blown down.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	-	Trees and large branches were blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	-	Large branches were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Proctorville	-	Trees were blown down along Wilgus Street.
August 2021	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
September 2018	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Proctorville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sunny Acres	0.5 miles	20
Plantation Estates	0.7 miles	19
Fairland	0.7 miles	19
Rome	0.9 miles	19
Mott	1.1 miles	19
Riverview Estates	1.1 miles	19
Home Park	1.2 miles	19
Cranford	1.3 miles	19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Proctorville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2006939	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061574. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.